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Ministers abandon plan to scrap farm animal welfare codes

Ministers have backed down on plans to repeal farm animal welfare codes, abandoning their move to put the poultry industry in charge of the guidance on chickens that was scheduled to come into force this month.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs released a statement confirming the U-turn, saying the decision was taken “in light of views raised”.

The move to scrap the official…

Spain Debates: Is It Time To Scrap The Siesta?

Every day at 2 p.m., Antonio Davila rolls the metal shutters down over the front of his computer repair shop in central Madrid. He heads home for lunch, picks up his kids at school — and then goes back to work from 5 to 9 p.m. He’s originally from Peru, and says Spanish hours took some getting used to.

“The sun sets later here, and that affects people’s habits,” Davila says. “I open my shop…

Pfizer, Allergan scrap $160 billion deal after U.S. tax rule change

U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and Ireland-based Allergan Plc (AGN.N) walked away from their $160 billion merger on Wednesday, a major win for President Barack Obama, who has been pushing to curb deals in which companies move overseas to cut taxes.

Pfizer said the decision was driven by new U.S. Treasury rules aimed at such deals, called inversions. The merger would have allowed New York-based…

Scrap inheritance tax and tackle Cameron’s hypocrisy head-on

Yet another secret is out: while David Cameron promised tax transparency, he was privately preventing EU moves to force open secretive trusts, in which Britain uniquely abounds. He protested against “£122bn of property in England and Wales owned offshore bought with plundered or laundered cash”, yet time and again it emerges that the prime minister was blocking EU clean-up efforts. Currently he…

More than 100 firefighters are battling a blaze at an industrial unit in Birmingham.

Crews were alerted to a fire at industrial premises in Adderley Park this afternoon, close to the main railway line heading out of New Street station.

17 fire engines and over 100 firefighters are currently fighting the blaze, West Midlands Fire Service confirmed.

A hydraulic platform was sent to the scene of the…

Japan’s Shikoku Electric to scrap aging nuclear reactor

Japanese utility Shikoku Electric Power Co said on Friday it would scrap the ageing 566-megawatt No.1 reactor at its Ikata nuclear plant

It said it had made the decision after taking into account the cost of safety upgrades to meet stringent requirements imposed following the Fukushima disaster five years ago.

The Ikata No.1 reactor began operations in 1977 and has been shut since Sept. 4, 2011…

DB Networks has released a first-of-its-kind database sensor that provides makers of security software with real-time, deep-protocol analysis of database traffic—inside or outside the firewall.

It’s probably not possible to gather too much network information when guarding against cyber-threats. So the more data a system can generate about legitimate users, the ones trying to break in and others…

‘Scrap FIFA and start again’, says Lord Triesman

Triesman has been a long-term critic of the world governing body and made allegations of ‘improper and unethical’ behaviour by four FIFA members in the House of Commons in 2011.

The 72-year-old, who resigned from his FA and World Cup 2018 bid posts in 2010, says he doubts the capacity of any of the current FIFA presidential candidates to change a “deep-seated culture” of corruption.

He told Sky…